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Solar Dance
Main description: In Modris Eksteins's hands, the interlocking stories of Vincent van Gogh and art dealer Otto Wacker reveal the origins of the fundamental uncertainty that is the hallmark of the modern era. Through the lens of Wacker's sensational 1932 trial in Berlin for selling fake Van Goghs, Eksteins offers a unique narrative of Weimar Germany, the rise of Hitler, and the replacement of nineteenth-century certitude with twentieth-century doubt. Berlin after the Great War was a magnet for art and transgression. Among those it attracted was Otto Wacker, a young gay dancer turned art impresario. His sale of thirty-three forged Van Goghs and the ensuing scandal gave Van Gogh's work unpreced...
Epimodernism
Postmodernism has had its day. Are we now in the era of epimodernism? Reinterpreting the six “memos” that Italo Calvino suggested more than thirty years ago for “the new Millennium”, in this acclaimed book Emmanuel Bouju identifies six new values for literature in the twenty-first century: Superficiality, Secrecy, Energy, Acceleration, Credit, and Follow Through. Based on the principal meanings of the Ancient Greek prefix epi – surface, contact, origin, extension, duration, authority, and finality – these values represent six different ways of relating to the legacy of modernist utopias, reorienting postmodern critique and rebooting, with all due irony, its various forms of engagement and empowerment. Equal parts cultural criticism and literary creation, this highly original essay both enacts and explores the epimodern turn in contemporary European literature. Rigorous and humorous, provocative and playful, Epimodernism helps us to understand what literature can describe, imagine, and invent in our challenging times.
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Experimentelle Poetik als Engagement
Mit Beginn der 1950er Jahre traten die konkrete und visuelle Poesie sowie die Lautdichtung und das experimentelle Hörspiel vor allem in Deutschland, in der Schweiz und in Österreich in Erscheinung. Bis heute werden diese literarischen Formen meist als bloße Sprachspielerei betrachtet, die den Autoren eine politische Stellungnahme zur Realität ersparten. Schon in den 1960er Jahren galten experimentelle Schreibweisen im Zuge einer einseitigen Rezeption des Sartre’schen Begriffs der „littérature engagée“ als „desengagiert“. Dennoch beriefen sich damals Autoren wie Eugen Gomringer, Helmut Heißenbüttel, Franz Mon, Max Bense, Reinhard Döhl oder Ernst Jandl auf die politische Tra...
Blixa Bargeld and Einstürzende Neubauten: German Experimental Music
At the end of his life, Pierre Schaeffer commented that his musical and sound experiments had attempted to go beyond 'do-re-mi'. This had a direct bearing on Einstürzende Neubauten's musical philosophy and work, with the musicians always striving to extend the boundaries of music in sound, instrumentation and purpose. The group are one of the few examples of 'rock-based' artists who have been able to sustain a breadth and depth of work in a variety of media over a number of years while remaining experimental and open to development. Jennifer Shryane provides a much-needed analysis of the group's important place in popular/experimental music history. She illustrates their innovations with found- and self-constructed instrumentation, their Artaudian performance strategies and textual concerns, as well as their methods of independence. Einstürzende Neubauten have also made a consistent and unique contribution to the development of the independent German Language Contemporary Music scene, which although often acknowledged as influential, is still rarely examined.
Komik und Gewalt
In einem Gang von der Jahrhundertwende (1900) bis hinein in die 1960er Jahre wird in dieser Studie anhand von literarischen Texten das Wechselspiel von Komik und Gewalt untersucht. Im Zentrum stehen die Werke von Karl Kraus, Veza Calderon-Canetti, Elias Canetti und Victor Klemperer, in denen sich der Erste Weltkrieg, der zunehmende Antisemitismus und Antifeminismus der Zwischenkriegszeit, der Zweite Weltkrieg und die Shoah spiegeln. Das Buch, das die widersprüchliche Geschichte des Lachens im 20. Jahrhundert skizziert und sowohl das Widerstandspotenzial von Komik als auch ihre Nähe zur Gewalt herausarbeitet, stellt zugleich einen Beitrag zur deutsch-jüdischen Kultur- und Literaturgeschichte dar.
Getty Research Journal No. 3
The Getty Research Journal showcases the remarkable original research underway at the Getty. Articles explore the rich collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum and Research Institute, as well as the Research Institute's research projects and annual theme of its scholar program. Shorter texts highlight new acquisitions and discoveries in the collections, and focus on the diverse tools for scholarship being developed at the Research Institute. This issue features essays by Bridget Alsdorf, Mari-Tere Alvarez, Sussan Babaie, Jane Bassett, Eckhart Gillen, Ara H. Merjian, Avinoam Shalem, Astrit Schmidt-Burkhardt, Isabelle Tillerot, and Wim de Wit; the short texts examine a scripta of Bartolomeo Sanvito, a sixteenth-century Florentine list of buildings to be demolished, a print by Donato Rascicotti, the diaries of James Ward, a family photo album of Morocco, Julius Shulman's A to Z negatives, Robert Alexander and Instant Theatre, and Anselm Kiefer's Die berühmten Orden der Nacht.
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Landscapes of Holocaust Postmemory
How do the spaces of the past stay with us through representations—whether literary or photographic? How has the Holocaust registered in our increasingly globally connected consciousness? What does it mean that this European event is often used as an interpretive or representational touchstone for genocides and traumas globally? In this interdisciplinary study, Kaplan asks and attempts to answer these questions by looking at historically and geographically diverse spaces, photographs, and texts concerned with the physical and/or mental landscape of the Holocaust and its transformations from the postwar period to the early twenty-first century. Examining the intersections of landscape, postmemory, and trauma, Kaplan's text offers a significant contribution to our understanding of the spatial, visual, and literary reach of the Holocaust.
Enseigner le nazisme et la Shoah
How have the Nazi period and the Shoah been presented in history textbooks for secondary schools published since 1950 in Germany, the United Kingdom, French-speaking Belgium and France ? This volume compares their contents by underlining the evolution of this content and the influence of the historic research as well as the various events which have been topical over the last fifty years. Whilst the European public opinion often mentions the deep silence about this Nazi period and the Shoah up to the late nineties, German textbooks from the fifties provided pupils, aged 14 to 16, with important information. Although incomplete and imperfect at the beginning, this knowledge was quickly offered and broke the silence before being dramatically increased and more precise at the turn of the century. As far as quantity and quality are concerned, there is a sharp contrast between the German and French textbooks and the British ones which deal much less with this topic. As for Walloon textbooks, they were scarce from the seventies to 2000.
